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There's only so much space in a schedule. If you push those games to later in the year, you're only pushing conference play earlier toward Thanksgiving territory. Then the whole argument of "we get better later on" starts to hurt us in the Big Ten standings where it starts to matter more.

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There's only so much space in a schedule. If you push those games to later in the year, you're only pushing conference play earlier toward Thanksgiving territory. Then the whole argument of "we get better later on" starts to hurt us in the Big Ten standings where it starts to matter more.

I am fine with playing conference games earlier.

Ultimately conference standings don't mean anything in basketball other than as fodder for media and fans to talk about.

The committee has said over and over that conference standings aren't even on a teams resume.